Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. on examination
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.6 quotes“To take the measure of oneself by reference to one’s colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.”
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Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind….
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Yale’s greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government – but the reverse… If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom.
Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. Attitudes on campuses often presage tendencies in the larger society. If that is so with respect to freedom of expression, the erosion of principle we have seen throughout our society in recent years may be only the beginning.
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